A Radical Path for Releasing Personal, Ancestral, & Systemic Harm
led by Dr RaShon, RootWomyn, PhD
UNBURDENED
Stepping aside on a narrow sidewalk—even when there is room to hold my line.
Modulating my voice to not “be so aggressive.”
Making myself small enough to fit inside of someone else’s shadow.
Letting someone think themselves forgiven even while the wound still bleeds.
These are not personality traits. They are trauma responses—quiet adjustments shaped over time by history, power, and the long expectation that Black bodies remain unthreatening and accommodating. What heavy burdens to carry! How do we lay them down? …Can we lay them down?
These questions are at the heart of Unburdened - two days of purposeful healing reflection, examining how forgiveness can be framed for peoples of African descent taking into consideration our unique historical struggles, doing so within a safe, intimate container of community.
Friday, Feb 20, 7pm - 9pm ET
Sun, Feb 22, 1 pm - 4pm ET
No, I do not weep at the world—
I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
WHAT IS THE WHAT?
Much of what lives in our bodies was never meant to be there. Personal pain, ancestral grief, and systemic harm have traveled through generations not because Black bodies are weak, but because they are enduring. This work emerged at the intersection of somatic wisdom, African-centered cosmology, and lived experience inside racialized systems that rarely pause long enough to allow repair.
Unburdened is a response to that inheritance—a practice that refuses spiritual bypass, refuses silence, and refuses the lie that healing requires forgetting. It offers a path where the body becomes the authority, the ancestors become witnesses, and release is understood not as erasure, but as a sacred act of returning what was imposed, keeping what was earned, and making room—at last—for breath, choice, and forward movement.
At the personal level, Unburdened also speaks to the intimate injuries that shape how we love, trust, and protect ourselves. Harm in relationships—whether through betrayal, abandonment, misuse of power, or chronic misunderstanding—often settles quietly into the body, teaching us who to be on guard with, how much to reveal, and what parts of ourselves to withhold. Over time, these relational wounds can harden into patterns that feel like personality but are, in truth, adaptations. Unburdened creates space to gently untangle those learned responses, honoring how they once kept us safe while inviting the body to release what no longer serves connection or vitality. In this way, relational healing becomes not an act of blame or forced forgiveness, but a reclamation of choice—the freedom to engage others from presence rather than protection, and to carry intimacy forward without the weight of past harm dictating the future.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Dr RaShon,
RootWomyn
Dr. RaShon is a certified Enneagram coach, trainer, and consultant. She is a practitioner of African Sacred Traditions with over four decades of experience working with individuals, groups, and organizations and has studied, trained, and worked in Africa, Brazil, Europe, the Caribbean, and the USA. As a daughter of OYA, her work involves assisting those amid significant transformation and change and supporting those who are committed to living with authenticity.
“…I am called Dr. RaShon RootWomyn, PhD. I am a gifted intuitive and have guided many along the path of self-awareness, self-development, healing, and empowerment.
Born with “the veil” that alerted my community to my unique psychic gifts, I am a disciple of Africa’s Sacred Healing Arts. From my homes in New Orleans and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, my work focuses on discovering the underlying cause of problems, challenges, circumstances, or illness and transforming the patterns that create and hold them in place".
My belief is that “…you have the capacity and the inner resources to approach your current life situation in a way that transforms your ability to have more of what you want and with considerably less effort.”
As founder and director of The Urban Enneagram New Orleans, LA —Atlanta, GA— Seattle, WA—Salvador, Bahia—Dr RaShon offers trainings, workshops, Executive Coaching, and mentorship, facilitated by a unique application of The 5th Way Enneagram informed by Afrikan Sacred Sciences.
Dr RaShon trained at the Enneagram Institute under the tutelage of Don Riso, Russ Hudson, Lynda Roberts, and Michael Naylor, where she began her preparation as an Enneagram teacher. She is certified as an Enneagram coach, trainer and consultant through Ginger Lapid-Bogda’s—The Enneagram in Business; has been trained and mentored by Dr Margaret Smith—Enneagram Global—in Enneagram systems analysis; has completed all coursework in the Enneagram Narrative Tradition on both the teacher and coach tracks; And most recently has become an Enneagram Applications Certified Professional through Enneagram Georgia and the Atlanta Center for Wellness.
She is also the “Spiritual Mother,” mentor and guide to Co-Founder of RTK, Tony Khepera Heru.
